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  • U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine completes visits to ICBM bases

    The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine began conducting its formal assessment for the Missile Community Cancer Study by visiting Air Force Global Strike Command’s three intercontinental ballistic missile bases.This step officially begins addressing specific cancer concerns raised by missile

  • Missileer reaches 500th alert

    Capt. Tom Popp, Deputy Crew Commander with the 319th Missile Squadron, recently achieved a rare milestone, reaching his 500th alert.

  • Junior enlisted execute Wing1Werx innovation competition

    Four innovators from Malmstrom Air Force Base planned, prepared and diligently worked to be selected as finalists for a quarterly innovation competition, which has implemented programs such as Air Force eSports and robotics now used across the force.

  • Mother, daughter share MMIII test launch experience, decades apart

    In the early morning of June 8, 1994, a then-1st Lt. Linda Tonnies, 740th Missile Squadron operator, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, turned the launch key and launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM for Glory Trip 155 at Vandenberg AFB, California. Little did she know that 26 years later, her

  • Weather keeps missileers on alert for 72 hours

    In the beginning of March a winter snow storm, that brought several inches of snow and more than 30 mph winds, left missile combat crews at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on alert for three days straight.

  • 20th AF aims to increase reserve footprint across missile wings

    Colonel Erich Novak, 20th Air Force mobilization assistant, discussed the decision and efforts being made to provide officers, in the 20th AF missile wings, the choice to continue to serve as a reserve Airman on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Sept. 29, 2017.   According to Novak, every year the reserve

  • MALMSTROM TESTS MINUTEMAN III MISSILE WITH LAUNCH FROM VANDENBERG

    A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen from the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single test reentry vehicle May 3 at 12:02 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time from Vandenberg Air Force